Connect with meBreannon has significant experience in the healthcare and public liability insurance sectors, with particular expertise in medical malpractice and personal injury litigation. She has defended claims brought against global biopharmaceutical companies, aged care facilities, medical practitioners and other allied health professionals in most Australian jurisdictions. She also routinely works with health practitioners to respond to disciplinary investigations and complaints.
Breannon also works on instruction from both local and international underwriters to investigate, assess and defend personal injury claims brought in a number of forums and across a wide range of industries.
Breannon has extensive alternative dispute resolution experience and is a confident advocate, having engaged in commercial negotiations in a range of forums including the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Breannon focuses on achieving the best possible outcome for clients through the thorough preparation of matters. She is committed to providing strategic advice and is focussed on the early, commercial resolution of claims (where appropriate) and outcomes that are suitable to both the insurer and the insured.
In 2024, Breannon was recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ in the Australasian Lawyer’s Rising Star awards and was a Finalist in both the Insurance and Health categories of the 2021 Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 awards.
Healthcare + Life Sciences
- Acting on behalf of members of the medical profession to respond to misconduct complaints made against them by patients or their employers, including the preparation of written responses to the supervising medical bodies and regulatory bodies and acting as instructing solicitor at tribunal hearings.
- Acting for an aged care facility to respond to allegations regarding improper administration of the COVID-19 vaccinations to patients with dementia.
- Acting for a global biopharmaceutical company to resolve compensation claims brought by clinical trial patients.
- Acting on behalf of allied health practitioners, dentists, psychologists and other members of the medical profession to defend allegations of clinical negligence brought against them in litigated proceedings.
- Acting on behalf of allied health practitioners, dentists, psychologists and other members of the medical profession to respond to medical malpractice or misconduct complaints made against them by patients, including the preparation of written responses to the supervising medical bodies and regulatory bodies, as well as acting as instructing solicitor at tribunal hearings.
Personal Injury
- Successfully defending litigated matters on behalf of health practitioners, market retailers and local Councils at trial.
- Appearing at contested interlocutory matters and at trial in complex, multi-party litigated claims involving catastrophic injuries to adults and minors and requiring an assessment of damages under the Compensation to Relatives Act and the Civil Liability Act.
- Routinely defending matters using the statutory defences of the Civil Liability Act, including matters involving dangerous recreational risk activities (such as horse racing, parasailing, jet boating and segway activities), injuries on worksites (involving statutory recovery proceedings under the Workers Compensation Act) and personal injury claims brought by members of the public against local government authorities.
- Acting for institutions and other corporate entities in the investigation and resolution of historical sexual abuse claims.
- Assisting in the quantification of a personal injury class action claim brought in the Federal Court of Australia (comprised of more than 2,000 group members).
- Acting in the defence of personal injury claims brought against international freight and warehousing companies, market retailers, property owners, small businesses, occupiers and agents.
- Acting on behalf of security guards, licensees and correctional facilities in the defence of intentional tort claims.
- Clinical Trials
- Government
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Life Sciences
- Medical Devices
- Personal Injury
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Industrial and Commercial Property
- Public Sector and Education
- Australian Insurance Law Association (Young Professionals Subcommittee, 2017 – ongoing)
- NSW Claims Discussion Group
- Women in Insurance